Record Nr.

UNINA9910458845103321

Autore

Neapolitan Richard E

Titolo

Probabilistic methods for financial and marketing informatics [[electronic resource] /] / Richard E. Neapolitan, Xia Jiang

Pubbl/distr/stampa


San Fransisco, CA, : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, c2007

ISBN

1-281-31147-2

9786611311476

0-08-055567-5

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (427 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JiangXia

Disciplina

332.01/519542

Soggetti

Finance - Statistical methods

Bayesian statistical decision theory - Data processing

Marketing - Statistical methods

Information technology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-408) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Probabilistic Methods for Financial and Marketing Informatics; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Part I: Bayesian Networks and Decision Analysis; Chapter 1. Probabilistic Informatics; 1.1 What Is Informatics?; 1.2 Probabilistic Informatics; 1.3 Outline of This Book; Chapter 2. Probability and Statistics; 2.1 Probability Basics; 2.2 Random Variables; 2.3 The Meaning of Probability; 2.4 Random Variables in Applications; 2.5 Statistical Concepts; Chapter 3. Bayesian Networks; 3.1 What Is a Bayesian Network?; 3.2 Properties of Bayesian Networks

3.3 Causal Networks as Bayesian Networks 3.4 Inference in Bayesian Networks; 3.5 How Do We Obtain the Probabilities?; 3.6 Entailed Conditional Independencies *; Chapter 4. Learning Bayesian Networks; 4.1 Parameter Learning; 4.2 Learning Structure (Model Selection); 4.3 Score-Based Structure Learning *; 4.4 Constraint-Based Structure Learning; 4.5 Causal Learning; 4.6 Software Packages for Learning; 4.7 Examples of Learning; Chapter 5. Decision Analysis Fundamentals; 5.1 Decision Trees; 5.2 Influence Diagrams; 5.3 Dynamic Networks *;

Chapter 6. Further Techniques in Decision Analysis

6.1 Modeling Risk Preferences 6.2 Analyzing Risk Directly; 6.3 Dominance; 6.4 Sensitivity Analysis; 6.5 Value of Information; 6.6 Normative Decision Analysis; Part II: Financial Applications; Chapter 7. Investment Science; 7.1 Basics of Investment Science; 7.2 Advanced Topics in Investment Science*; 7.3 A Bayesian Network Portfolio Risk Analyzer *; Chapter 8. Modeling Real Options; 8.1 Solving Real Options Decision Problems; 8.2 Making a Plan; 8.3 Sensitivity Analysis; Chapter 9. Venture Capital Decision Making; 9.1 A Simple VC Decision Model; 9.2 A Detailed VC Decision Model

9.3 Modeling Real Decisions 9.A Appendix; Chapter 10. Bankruptcy Prediction; 10.1 A Bayesian Network for Predicting Bankruptcy; 10.2 Experiments; Part III: Marketing Applications; Chapter 11. Collaborative Filtering; 11.1 Memory-Based Methods; 11.2 Model-Based Methods; 11.3 Experiments; Chapter 12. Targeted Advertising; 12.1 Class Probability Trees; 12.2 Application to Targeted Advertising; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bayesian Networks are a form of probabilistic graphical models and they are used for modeling knowledge in many application areas, from medicine to image processing. They are particularly useful for business applications, ans* Unique coverage of probabilistic reasoning topics applied to business problems, including marketing, banking, operations management, and finance. * Shares insights about when and why probabilistic methods can and cannot be used effectively; * Complete review of Bayesian networks and probabilistic methods for those IT professionals new to informati

Record Nr.

UNISA996394187303316

Autore

A. M

Titolo

A rich closet of physical secrets collected by the elaborate pains of four several students in physick, and digested together [[electronic resource] ] : viz. The child-bearers cabinet. A preservative against the plague and smal pox. Physical experiments presented to our late Queen Elizabeths own hands. With certain approved medicines, taken out of a manuscript, found at the dissolution of one of our English abbies, and supplied with some of his own experiments, by a late English doctor

Pubbl/distr/stampa


London, : printed by Gartrude Dawson, and are to be sold by John Saywell at his shop at the sign of the Greyhound in little Britain without Aldersgate, 1653

Descrizione fisica

[6], 71, [1] p

Soggetti

Medicine - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Plague - Prevention

Smallpox - England